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Giant Pteranodon Skeleton Sells At Auction For $3.9 Million

The Pteranodon ruled the skies during the late Cretaceous period of North America - between 66 and 145 million years ago.

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UK experts fear losing access to ice age mammoths Cotswolds site to UAE

Archeologists and palaeontologists say legislation needed to protect major finds championed by David Attenborough

The Guardian - UK

The heaviest animal ever may be this ancient whale found in the Peruvian desert

A new species of ancient whale might be the heaviest animal ever found

The Independent UK

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Oldest known swimming jellyfish revealed

The 505 million-year-old fossil hints at what sea life was like in the Cambrian era

Salon

This Jellyfish Swam The Earth’s Water Bodies Half A Billion Years Ago

Free-swimming predatory jellyfish discovered from fossil records extracted from the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies.

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Oldest species of swimming jellyfish discovered in 505m-year-old fossils

New species named Burgessomedusa phasmiformis was found in Canada and is exceptionally well preserved

The Guardian - UK

Field Museum redefines the face of science with new exhibition

The second installment of the exhibition highlights the story of “punk rock paleontologist” Jingmai O’Connor, the museum’s dinosaur curator.

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Blue blood from horseshoe crabs is valuable for medicine, but a declining bird needs them for food

The biomedical industry is adopting new standards to protect a primordial sea animal that is a linchpin of the production of vital medicines

The Independent UK

Insect Bites On Ancient Plants Reveal Early Origins Of Leaf Folding

Fossil evidence suggests foliar nyctinasty predates dinosaurs by millions of years.

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German Quarry Yields 145 Million-Year-Old ‘Elvis’ Pterosaur With Unique Bony Head Crest

Exquisitely preserved fossil of nearly complete flying reptile sheds light on Late Jurassic pterosaurs

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Ancient Human Burials Featured in Netflix Doc Spark a Scientific Controversy

Did our long-lost hominin cousins venture deep underground to dig graves for their dead, or is there still a mystery lurking in Rising Star Cave?

Inverse

Two Newly-Discovered Saber-Toothed Cat Species Shed Light on the Ancient Past

Paleontologists discovered the fossils of four extinct saber-toothed cats, including two new species, that roamed South Africa five million years ago.

Inverse

Science This Week | New way to settle the universe expansion dispute, risk of dengue on the rise as the planet warms and more

Check out The Hindu’s science wrap featuring top 7 stories on new discoveries, findings, and studies in the scientific world from this week.

The Hindu

How did the dinosaurs become birds? The nose knows

Dinosaurs evolved to birds over millions of years, changing from cold-blooded from warm-blooded in the process. A new study has reported that warm-blooded animals have larger nasal cavities than cold-blooded ones, which could help cool their larger brains (relative to head size). Specifically, it reported finding the long-sought physiological function…

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How Ants Are Better Communicators Than Humans

A new study sheds fresh light on how ants provide food, shelter and defense for an entire colony.

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Scientists Unearth Fossil Of Dinosaur Being Attacked By Mammal

The fossil sheds new light on the behavior of early mammals in relation to their dinosaur contemporaries.

The Independent UK

Technological secrets from 300,000 BC: How one stick revealed early humans were more skilled than we thought

It’s the first time that scientists have proved that pre-Homo-sapiens species of humans had developed sophisticated woodworking skills

The Hindu

Dramatic fossil shows mammal attacking dinosaur

Mammal Repenomamus robustus, the size of a domestic cat, was found attacking a dinosaur, Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis, 125 million years ago in China. This fossil suggests that Mesozoic food webs were more complex than previously thought, as it is the first evidence of a mammal preying on a dinosaur. The fossil…

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The Conversation

Did the Anthropocene start in 1950 – or much earlier? Here's why debate over our world-changing impact matters

It made world news last week when a small lake in Canada was chosen as the “Golden Spike” – the location where the emergence of the Anthropocene is most clear. The Anthropocene is the proposed new geological epoch defined by humanity’s impact on the planet.

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PSA: Exoprimal doesn't really tell you how its progression works

Progression in Exoprimal is a little unclear to new players. Here's what you need to know about unlocking the cooler content.

Evening Standard

Mammal and dinosaur found ‘locked in mortal combat’ from 125million years ago

The discovery questions the view that dinosaurs roamed the planet unchallenged during the Cretaceous period, researchers say

The Independent UK

Mammals may have hunted down dinosaurs for dinner, rare fossil suggests

An unusual find in China suggests some early mammals may have hunted dinosaur for dinner

The Guardian - UK

‘Not always king’: fossil shows mammal sinking teeth into dinosaur

Discovery in China challenges view of early mammals as ‘fodder’ for dinosaurs, say researchers

The Independent UK

Mammal and dinosaur found ‘locked in mortal combat’ from 125m years ago

The discovery questions the view that dinosaurs roamed the planet unchallenged during the Cretaceous period, researchers say.

The Independent UK

The 125 million year battle between a dinosaur and a badger-like beast

The fossilised remains of the dramatic moment frozen in time were discovered

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